Every mother who encounters a baby’s disease knows how difficult it is to survive this condition of a child who suddenly becomes restless, inconsolably crying, irritable. The hardest thing in this situation is that the baby cannot explain that it hurts, and the mother cannot understand how to help her baby. With stomatitis, it is also difficult to immediately notice the baby's problem, since the disturbing sores and wounds are hidden in a small mouth. Knowing the symptoms of stomatitis and how to treat stomatitis in children, it will be much easier to overcome the disease.
Signs of stomatitis in infants
Pain in the mouth causes the baby to sag and cry when the baby takes a dummy in his mouth or tries to eat. Itching wounds make the baby pull his hands in his mouth. Possible increase in temperature. If the mother looks into the baby’s mouth, she will see that the mucous membrane is all ulcerated and covered with plaque.
Identification of ulcers allows you to diagnose stomatitis.
After stomatitis is diagnosed, treatment should be started immediately and the suffering of the baby should be alleviated. How to treat stomatitis in children can only be said by a professional doctor. Do not put your baby at risk by resorting to self-medication.
The principles of treatment for stomatitis are based on alleviating the condition of the child and addressing the causes of stomatitis.
We will figure out how to treat stomatitis in children. First of all, anesthesia and removal of itching will be required. Anesthesia for stomatitis can be done using gels that are designed for teething - “Kalgel” or “Kamistad”. The basis of their action is the work of lidocaine.
How to treat stomatitis in children if the sores still develop, even if the pain is gone? Mouth sores need to be treated with an antiseptic. Wounds should be disinfected as much as possible, since they are a direct way for infection to enter the body. The oral cavity should be treated with a gauze cloth moistened with trypsin or chymotrypsin to remove dead skin and dead particles that contribute to the growth of microorganisms. Then the oral cavity is treated with an antimicrobial drug - a solution of furatsillina, decoctions of herbs, stomatophyte.
Doctors do not recommend treating stomatitis in newborns with sprays, since spraying is a rather traumatic option for a tiny mouth, and the dose of the drug may also be excessive for the baby.
Stomatitis has several varieties, so the choice of treatment will depend on the accurate diagnosis of the type of disease. There are herpetic stomatitis (antiviral drugs will be required for treatment), aphthous (recurrent) stomatitis (requires a comprehensive examination of the child for any hidden diseases that cause weakening of the immune system and stomatitis), candidal (fungal) stomatitis.
Fungal stomatitis in the infant is the most common type. Treatment of candidal stomatitis ("thrush") in the treatment of sores with an alkaline environment. The baby's oral cavity is treated with a soda solution or a solution of borax in glycerin. Candidiasis stomatitis is effectively treated with "Iodinol" and antifungal agents ("Clotrimazole", "Nizoral"). In severe cases, the help of antibiotics that inhibit the development of fungi is required.
When treating stomatitis in young children, it is important to take measures to prevent its reappearance. The child should not take dirty objects, the slightest irritation of the oral cavity should be immediately treated with an antiseptic and treated. Baby's dummies and nipples should be decontaminated regularly. You should not poke a baby's dummy off the floor again into the baby’s mouth, just as you shouldn’t lick the same fallen nipple yourself, then give it to the baby.
Elementary preventive measures will help your baby avoid a very unpleasant ailment.